Throughout my time in the Global Illumination course at RIT I will be working on a semester long project- this is the proposal for the project.
I would like to build a real time ray tracer into my game engine, [NGen (www.github.com/MrNex/NGen)]. This ray tracer should be able to render a low-mid object dynamic scene while still processing input, collision detection, object state/behaviors, and physics. It should be noted that while this scope seems large, everything besides the ray tracer is already implemented.
As an undergraduate from the Game Design & Development program I have a strong interest in real time interactive applications. Furthermore, I have been devoutly working on NGen for ~3 years now and am currently on my third iteration of the project. One area of NGen I am still unsatisfied with is the rendering engine. The addition of a real time ray tracer could definitely fill that void!
I plan to use the C programming language along with OpenGL and OpenCL as needed to achieve my goal. I will also use the libraries which are apart of my NGen or which my NGen depends on.
I, Nicholas Gallagher, would be working on this project alone.
Wish me luck!
Since this post the project has been completed. A new post containing links to the project, documentation, and a video can be found at the following link: Link to a new post